Chapter II.: Miracles.--Belief in miracles is necessary if Christianity

be true. The various attempts to explain miracles are evasions, not solutions of a difficulty, and are as specious as they are conflicting. Few thinkers could bring themselves to agree with Canon Mason that miracles are no longer needed because "the Holy Spirit, with His eternal freshness of life, does not cramp Himself by obsolete and antiquated methods of action." [317] The fundamental miracles are not historical facts. The evidence for all miracles is totally inadequate. No miracle has ever occurred.